diguer

French

Etymology

From Middle French diguer, dicquier, dieguer, from Old French dikier, from Middle Dutch diken, dijcken, from Old Dutch *dīkon, from Proto-West Germanic *dīkōn (“to dig, ditch, dam”); cognate with Old English dīcian (“to dam, dig”). More at English dig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ɡe/

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Verb

diguer

1. (transitive) to dam, to dike; to spur (a horse)

Conjugation

Conjugation of diguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	diguer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	diguant /di.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		digué /di.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	digue /diɡ/	digues /diɡ/	digue /diɡ/	diguons /di.ɡɔ̃/	diguez /di.ɡe/	diguent /diɡ/
	imperfect	diguais /di.ɡɛ/	diguais /di.ɡɛ/	diguait /di.ɡɛ/	diguions /di.ɡjɔ̃/	diguiez /di.ɡje/	diguaient /di.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	diguai /di.ɡe/	diguas /di.ɡa/	digua /di.ɡa/	diguâmes /di.ɡam/	diguâtes /di.ɡat/	diguèrent /di.ɡɛʁ/
	future	diguerai /di.ɡʁe/	digueras /di.ɡʁa/	diguera /di.ɡʁa/	diguerons /di.ɡʁɔ̃/	diguerez /di.ɡʁe/	digueront /di.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	diguerais /di.ɡʁɛ/	diguerais /di.ɡʁɛ/	diguerait /di.ɡʁɛ/	diguerions /di.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	digueriez /di.ɡə.ʁje/	digueraient /di.ɡʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	digue /diɡ/	digues /diɡ/	digue /diɡ/	diguions /di.ɡjɔ̃/	diguiez /di.ɡje/	diguent /diɡ/
	imperfect2	diguasse /di.ɡas/	diguasses /di.ɡas/	diguât /di.ɡa/	diguassions /di.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	diguassiez /di.ɡa.sje/	diguassent /di.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	digue /diɡ/	—	diguons /di.ɡɔ̃/	diguez /di.ɡe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “diguer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.